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Nerth Shore News

Every year I ask this same
uestion and I think my New
Year’s Resolution is going to

again.

SN

Fer the last issue this year
the Inquiring Reporter asks:
‘*What is your New Year’s
Resolution going to ber”

As the Christmas
season unfolds, Editors
go quietly NUTS!

Most’ of them - try,
(GOD, how they try!) to

the readers want. exp-
licit detailing | | of the
latest mugging, rape. or
murder, and the mer-~
chants are flogging the

be not to ask this question

| Leslie Wells
North Vanceuver

My resolution

is to stop
smoking. |

get just a little bit of the ;
spirit of Christ onto the.
pages they control... -but |

ripe plums from a tree

that bears fruit only in.

December! . - oo

Therefore, Ol’ Bill will
ease the anguish of Editors
with the telling of a tale first
unfolded by Alexander Wool-
Icott on December: 25th,

1938, when Columbia Broad-

casting interrupted the ac-
counting of a funny little man
with a mustache long enough
to permit Mr. Woollcott a

story which will outlast Adolf.

Hitler and the Thousand
Year Reich by many cent-
uries:

oe ®

We will. move from the
bunkers of the Reichstag to
the Algonquin Hotel, in New
‘York, wherein two young
people aspired the dancing
shoes of Mr. and. Mrs.
Vernon Castle. One of them,
years later, was to be Peter
Pan during the Christmas
Season. in: London...but, in
the moment I speak of, it was
Christmas Eve in New York

City. and. they were, ; as the
saying goes, FLAT BROKE!

The Algonquin ‘Hotel, ap-
parently, was an _ under-
standing hostel which was

favored by those who risked’
the slippery. rungs of the

ladder known as- FAME.

Dancers, singers, actors (and

even those aging vaudevil-
lians with a new soft-shoe
act) got the full linen, silver
and cut-glass treatment. The
exquisite distinction on this
Christmas Eve of which I
speak was a rather sharp
line, designed by mange-
ment. to separate those who

had cash and could pay—and

those who couldn’t!

Unfortunately, the young
couple who sustain this story

were on the wrong side of the

ledger. Thusly, as Mr.
Woollcott so ably recounts,
there was on this Christmas
Eve a totalling up of cash on
hand—above and _ slightly
beyond the rent for the
tarthcoming uncertain
weeks. Sufficiently beyond,
to put it bluntly, to permit a

hug,’ a kiss...und the return
CONTINUED ON PAGE 16

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and

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I’m not.

concerned with Right now, I don’t think I’m _My resolutions are to grad-

resolutions. I just want to going to make any. Maybe — . uate this year and have a lot
have a Bood time e New Year’ s Tater. a of fun.

Eve. °

I don’ t have any. resolutions
because. I don’ t keep them
anyway. -

En

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They cost some ofus
morethanmoney.

About $49 of your last auto insurance premium ;
is going to pay the tab for drinking drivers. “the world.” | | Ce -
That’s an estimate of the costs of 1976-77) Wopar can you do about it? You. can ‘accept. a
claims in which alcohol was a significant factor. responsibility not only for your own drinking
It includes collision, property damage, bodily and driving behaviour—but also for that of - :
injury, accident. benefit, uninsured motorist | your family. Your friends. Your guests. Maybe
and hit-and-run claims. © ° ;

you'll talk them out of that last drink. Or if that |
What i it doesn’t include are the costs that can’t

isn’t possible, talk them intoacab. 2.
b measured in money. The suffering of oe

Here’s what we're doing aly t bos

ident victims and their families. The days Insurance Cor oorntl joing spout it at th Ce care

ost in court. The nights lost in jail. And above Provincigi Government's Drinking Driving re
all, the wasted lives. Because last year alone, |

more than 300 British Columbians died

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pointlessly in alcohol-related accidents. ' This program might save you some: money on
It’s another first for our province. The worst

drinking-driving toll in 1 Canada, Perhaps i int:

+ your next car insurance premium. es
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_ The lower the accident rate, the lower the insufincs —

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